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New comment by inChargeOfIT in "507 Mechanical Movements"

inChargeOfIT — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:22:54 +0000

thanks for this!

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images"

inChargeOfIT — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:40:43 +0000

It's free for now, just like registries were "free" and docker desktop was free.. until they weren't. I am not against Docker capitalizing and charging for their services (as they should); however, the pattern of offering a service for free and then reneging after it's widely adopted, makes me hesitant to adopt any of their offerings.

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "Cities panic over having to release mass surveillance recordings"

inChargeOfIT — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:21:32 +0000

A month or two after a visit to Iceland (my favorite country by far by the way), I received a ticket in the mail for speeding. It included a picture of the car I rented and a closeup of the driver's face- a face that did not belong to me (presumably another renter).

Luckily, a quick phone call and a copy of my drivers license cleared things up, but systems like these inevitably lead to "guilty until proven innocent" scenarios instead of "innocent until proven guilty".

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer"

inChargeOfIT — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:51:01 +0000

works for me

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "An embarrassing failure of the US patent system: Nintendo's latest patents"

inChargeOfIT — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:55:55 +0000

From the abstract, it sure sounds like any electronic checkers or chess game would fall under this patent. If so, I'm sure there is plenty of prior art to invalidate their claim.

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks"

inChargeOfIT — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:32:47 +0000

I'm not even sure it saves a ton of time to be honest. It sure _feels_ like I spend more time writing up tasks and researching/debugging hallucinations than just doing the thing myself.

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs"

inChargeOfIT — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:37:55 +0000

So that would include everything? - cloud/hosting expenses - system administrators/devops engineers and their laptops, workstations - project management software, office software, support, etc - project managers, designers, technical writers, qa engineers - software licenses, domain names, certificates, etc - internet bandwidth, data-centers, HVAC, backups

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches"

inChargeOfIT — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 23:00:21 +0000

Proxmox uses qemu for vm’s.

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "[dead]"

inChargeOfIT — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 20:36:38 +0000

Everson on the @GeekDetour YouTube channel explores how a patent filed in 2020 could be preventing our slicers from generating stronger 3d prints using "Brick Layers". He shows, what appears to me at least, to be pretty clear evidence of prior art that _should_ invalidate the patent.

I'm not a lawyer but would love to see this added to all slicers.

Watch his 8 minute video and/or read his open patreon blog post (https://www.patreon.com/posts/115566868) and help spread the conversation.

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image"

inChargeOfIT — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:14:58 +0000

little known fact: you can write shorthand for any ip address. It simply omits 0. Ie 127.0.0.1 (or 127.000.000.001). Try pinging it. `ping 127.1`

10.0.0.3 -> ping 10.3

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "Mixtral of experts"

inChargeOfIT — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:57:06 +0000

It sounds like the same requirements as a 70b+ model, but if someone manages to get inference running locally on a single rtx4090 (AMD 7950x3D w/ 64GB ddr5) reasonably well, please let me know.

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "Should you split that file?"

inChargeOfIT — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:22:00 +0000

I totally agree. And some long/complex files are simply unavoidable (shell/build scripts, config files, etc).

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "Should you split that file?"

inChargeOfIT — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:20:32 +0000

This is not always possible and a little short-sighted, especially when you are on a large, complex, established project with many contributors, where "just refactor 1.5 million lines of code, spanning 1500 files that have evolved over a 10 year period" is just something not open for debate.

In those cases, and in the cases where a single large file just makes more sense or is unavoidable (IaC/build scripts, shell/sql/migration scripts, config files, etc.), the author's methods are absolutely valuable.

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "Should you split that file?"

inChargeOfIT — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:03:43 +0000

I find if you subscribe to the "Write libraries not software" mantra where your libraries/packages/classes are focused and adhere to the single responsibility principal, code organization kinda sorts itself out. But I agree with the author that organizing and commenting long files like this makes it easier to grok what's going on.

But if you are clicking around a project and scrolling with your mouse, instead of taking advantage of your IDE's ability to use keystrokes to find and open files, jump to references/definitions, find and replace text, etc., you are handicapping yourself. It's worth the investment to learn.

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "static-server: an HTTP server in Go for static content"

inChargeOfIT — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 17:36:05 +0000

Assuming you have python installed on the system, yeah.

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "Rosenpass – formally verified post-quantum WireGuard"

inChargeOfIT — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 21:50:32 +0000

Starred! And thanks to the author for taking the time to answer so many questions here!

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "Oxford University Press’s new logo is unfathomably bad"

inChargeOfIT — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:24:29 +0000

A camera shutter? Are they getting into photography?

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming"

inChargeOfIT — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:28:22 +0000

I really like the idea of something like vlang (https://vlang.io), as I've tried multiple times to find the motivation to learn Rust, but always end up going back to golang for the simplicity.

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "Senators Urge FTC to Probe ID.me over Selfie Data"

inChargeOfIT — Wed, 18 May 2022 23:05:44 +0000

The primary reason I do not use the va.gov online services.

New comment by inChargeOfIT in "Public Money, Public Code"

inChargeOfIT — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 21:03:16 +0000

The US is getting better about it, some more than others, but a few off the top of my head..

https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs https://github.com/nationalsecurityagency https://github.com/GSA https://github.com/CMSgov https://github.com/CDCgov